because they have been pre-decided to be acceptable
by the established financial powers who actually run the show.
Yet many who understand this illusion of democracy, often think
"If only we could just get our honest, ethical politicians in power",
then we would be okay.
Well, while this idea of course seems reasonable
in our established oriented world view,
it is unfortunately another fallacy.
For when it really comes down to what is actually important,
the institution of politics and thus politicians themselves,
have absolutely no true relevance as to what makes our world and society function.
It's not politicians that can solve problems.
They have no technical capabilities.
They don't know how to solve problems.
Even if they were sincere, they don't know how to solve problems.
It's the technicians that produce the desalinization plants.
It's the technicians that give you electricity.
That give you motor vehicles.
That heat your house and cool it in the summer time.
It's technology that solves problems, not politics.
Politics cannot solve problems 'cause they are not trained to do so.
Very few people today stop and consider
what it is that actually improves their lives.
Is it money? Obviously not.
One cannot eat money or stuff money into their car to get it to run.
Is it politics?
All politicians can do is create laws,
establish budgets and declare war.
Is it religion?
Of course not, religion creates nothing except
intangible emotional solace for those who require it.
The true gift that we as human beings have,
which has been solely responsible for everything that has improved our lives,
is technology.
What is technology?
Technology is a pencil,
which allows one to solidify ideas on paper for communication.
Technology is an automobile, which allows one to travel faster than feet would allow.
Technology is a pair of eye glasses, which enables sight for those who need it.
Applied technology itself is merely and extension of human attributes,
which reduces human effort, freeing humans from a particular chore or problem.
Imagine what your life would be like today without a telephone,
or an oven,
or a computer,
or an airplane.
Everything in your home, which you take for granted, from a doorbell,
to a table,
to a dishwasher,
is technology, generated from the creative scientific ingenuity of human technicians.
Not money, politics or religion.
These are false institutions.
...and writing your congressman is fantastic.
They tell you, "write your congressman if you want something done".
The men in Washington should be at the forefront of technology.
The forefront of human study.
The forefront of crime.
All the factors that shape human behavior.
You don't have to write your congressman.
What kind of people are they that are appointed to do that job?
The future will have great difficulty...
and the question that's raised by politicians is:
How much will a project cost?
The question is not "how much will it cost".
Do we have the resources?
And we have the resources today to house everyone,
build hospitals all over the world,
build schools all over the world,
the finest equipment in labs for teaching and doing medical research.
So you see, we have all that, but we're in a monetary system,
and in a monetary system there's profit.
And what is the fundamental mechanism that drives the profit system
besides self-interest?
What is it exactly that maintains that competitive edge at it's core?
Is it high efficiency and sustainability?
No. That isn't part of their design.
Nothing produced in our profit based society is even remotely sustainable or efficient.
If it was, there wouldn't be a multi-million dollar a year service industry for automobiles.
Nor would the average lifespan for most electronics be less than three months
before they're obsolete.
Is it abundance?
Absolutely not.
Abundance, as based on the laws of supply and demand,
is actually a negative thing.
If a diamond company finds ten times the usual amount of diamonds during their mining,
it means the supply of diamonds has increased,
which means the cost and profit per diamond drops.
The fact is: efficiency, sustainability and abundance
are enemies of profit.
To put it into a word,
it is the mechanism of scarcity that increases profits.
What is scarcity?
Based on keeping products valuable.
Slowing up production on oil raises the price.
Maintaining scarcity of diamonds keeps the price high.
They burn diamonds at the Kimberly Diamond Mine. They're made of carbon.
That keeps the price up.
So then, what does it mean for society when scarcity,
either produced naturally or through manipulation
is a beneficial condition for industry?
It means that sustainability and abundance will never ever occur in profit system.
For it simply goes against the very nature of the structure.
Therefore, it is impossible to have a world without war or poverty.
It is impossible to continually advance technology
to its most efficient and productive states.
And most dramatically,
it is impossible to expect human beings
to behave
in truly ethical or decent ways.
People use the word instinct because they can't account for the behavior.
They sit back and they evaluate with their lack of knowledge, you know,
and they say things like
"humans are built a certain way", "greed is a natural thing",
as though they'd worked for years on it.
And it's no more natural than wearing clothing.
What we want to do is to eliminate
the causes of the problems.
Eliminate the processes that
produce greed, and bigotry, and prejudice,
and people taking advantage of one another, and elitism.
Eliminating the need for prisons and welfare.
We have always had these problems because we have always lived within scarcity,
and barter, and monetary systems that produce scarcity.
If you eradicate the conditions that generate
what you call socially offensive behavior,
it does not exist.
A guy says: "well listen, are they in-born?"
No it's not.
There is no human nature, there's human behavior,
and that's always been changed throughout history.
You're not born with bigotry, and greed, and corruption, and hatred.
You pick that up within the society.
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering
will not change in a monetary system.
That is, there will be very little significant change.
It's going to take the redesigning of our culture,
our values,
and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the earth,
not some human opinion or some politicians notions
of the way the world ought to be.
Or some religion's notion of the conduct of human affairs.
And that's what The Venus Project is about.
The society, that we're about to talk about,
is a society that is free of all the old superstitions,
incarceration, prisons, police cruelty and law.
All laws will disappear
and the professions will disappear, that are no longer valid,
such as stockbrokers, bankers advertising.
Gone! Forever!
Because it's no longer relevant.
When we understand that it is technology
devised by human ingenuity
which frees humanity and increases our quality of life
we then realize, that the most important focus we can have
is on the intelligent management of the earth's resources.
For, it is from these natural resources, we gain the materials to continue our path of prosperity
Understanding this we then see,
that money fundamentally exists as a barrier to these resources,
for virtually everything has a financial cause.
And why do we need money to obtain these resources?
Because of real or assumed scarcity.
We don't usually pay for air and tap water,
because it is in such high abundance,
selling it would be pointless.
So then, logically speaking,
if resources and technologies, applicable to creating everything in our societies
such as houses, cities and transportation, were in high enough abundance,
there would be no reason to sell anything.
Likewise, if automation and machinery was so technologically advanced,
as to relieve human beings of labor
there would be no reason to have a job.
And with these social aspects taking care of,
there would be no reason to have money at all.
So the ultimate question remains:
Do we on earth have enough resources
and technological understanding
to create a society of such abundance,
that everything we have now could be available without a price tag
and without the need for submission through employment?
Yes, we do.
We have the resources and technology
to enable this at a minimum
along with the ability to raise the standards of living so high
that people in the future will look back at our civilisation now
and gawk how primitive and immature our society was.
What the Venus Project proposes
is an entirely different system
that's updated to present day knowledge
We've never given scientists the problem of
how do you design a society that would eliminate boring and monotonous jobs,
that would eliminate accidents in transportation,
that would enable people to have a high standard of living,
that would eliminate poisons in our food,
give us other sources of energy, that are clean and efficient.
We can do that out there.
A resource based economy.
The major difference between a resource based economy and a monetary system
is that a resource based economy is really concerned with people
and their well-being
where the monetary system has become so distorted that the concerns of the people are really secondary, it they're there at all.
Products that are turned out are for:
how much money you can get.
If there is a problem in society and you can't earn money from solving that problem, then it won't be done.
The resource based economy is really not close to anything that's been tried.
And with all our technology today we can create abundance. It could be used to improve everyone's livestyle.
Abundance all over the world if we use our technology wisely
and maintain the environment.
It's a very different system
and it's very hard to talk about
because the public is not that well enough informed
as to the state of technology.
energy
At present, we don't have to burn fossil fuels.
We don't have to use anything that would contaminate the environment.
There are many sources of energy available.
Alternative energy solutions pushed by the establishment, such as
hydrogen, biomass and even nuclear are highly insufficient, dangerous
and exist only to perpetuate the profit-structure the industry has created.
When we look beyond the propaganda and self-serving solutions
put forth by the energy companies
we find a seemingly endless stream
of clean abundant and renewable energy for generating power.
Solar and wind energy are well known to the public. But the true potential of these mediums remains unexpressed.
Solar energy, derived from the sun,
has such abundance, that one hour of light at high noon
contains more energy than what the entire world consumes in a year.
If we could capture 1/100th of a percent of this energy,
the world would never have to use oil, gas or anything else.
The questioning is not availability
but the technology to harnesst it.
And there are many advanced mediums today
which could accomplish just that,
if they were not hindered by the need to compete for market share
with the established energy power structures.
Then there's wind energy.
Wind energy has long been denounced as weak
and, due to being location driven, impractical.
This is simply not true.
The US department of energy admitted in 2007
that if wind was fully harvested in just three of Americas 50 states
it could power the entire nation.
And then there are the rather unknown mediums of tidal and wave power.
Tidal power is derived from tidal shifts in the ocean.
Installing turbines which capture this movement, generates energy.
In the United Kingdom 42 sites are currently noted as available,
forecasting that 34% of all the UK's energy could come from tidal power alone.
Wave power, which extracts energy from the surface motions of the ocean,
is estimated to have a global potential of up to 80.000 terawatt-hours a year.
This means 50% of the entire planet's energy usage could be produced from this medium alone.
Now, it is important to point out that tidal, wave, solar and wind power
requires virtually no preliminary energy to harness,
unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass, hydrogen and all the others.
In combination these four mediums alone, if efficiently harnessed through technology,
could power the world forever.
That being said, there happens to be another form of clean renewable energy, which trumps them all.
Geothermal power.
Geothermal energy utilizes what is called "heat mining".
Which, through a simple process using water, is able to generate massive amounts of clean energy.
In 2006, an MIT report on geothermal energy
found that 13.000 zetajule of power are currently available in the earth
with the possibility of 2.000 ZJ being easily tapable with improved technology.
The total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet is about
half of a zetajule a year.
This means about 4000 years of planetary power could be harnessed
in this medium alone.
And when we understand that the earth's heat generation is constantly renewed,
this energy is really limitless.
It could be used forever.
These energy sources are only a few of the clean renewable mediums available
and as time goes on we will find more.
The grand realization is that we have total energy abundance without the need for pollution,
traditional conservation or, in fact, a price tag.
And what about transportation?
The prevailing means of transportation in our societies is by automobile and aircraft,
both of which predominantly need fossil fuels to run.
In the case of the automobile, the battery technology needed
to power an electric car that can go over a hundred miles an hour
for over two hundred miles on one charge,
exists and has existed for many years.
However, due to battery patents, controlled by the oil industry, which limits their ability to maintain market share,
coupled with political pressure from the energy industry,
the accessibility and affordability of this technology is limited.
There is absolutely no reason, other than pure, corrupt profit interests,
that every single vehicle in the world cannot be
electric and utterly clean, with zero need for gasoline.
As far as airplanes,
it is time we realize that this means of travel is inefficient,
cumbersome, slow and causes far too much pollution.
This is a mag-lev train.
It uses magnets for propulsion.
It is fully suspended by a magnetic field
and requires less then two percent of the energy used for plane travel.
The train has no wheels, so nothing can wear out.
The current maximum speed of versions of this technology,
as used in Japan, is three hundred and sixty one miles per hour.
However this version of the technology is very dated.
An organisation called ET3 which has connection with the Venus project,
has established a tube-based mag-lev that can travel up to 4000 miles per hour
in a motionless, frictionless tube, which can go over land or under water.
Imagine going from L.A to New York for an extended lunchbreak
or from Washington D.C. to Beijing, China, in two hours.
This is the future of continental and intercontinental travel.
Fast, clean, with only a fraction of the energy usage we use today for the same means.
In fact, between mag-lev technology, advanced battery storage and geothermal energy
there will be no reason to ever burn fossil fuels again.
And we can do this now, if we were not held back by the paralyzing profit structure.
work
Now America is inclined toward fascism.
It has a propensity by its dominant philosophy and religion to uphold to fascist point of view.
American industry is essencially a fascist institution.
If you dont understand that, the minute you punch that time clock you walk into a dictatorship.
We're given notions about the respectibility of work.
And I realy look at it as being paid slavery.
You brought up to believe that you shall earn your living by the sweat of your brow.
That holds people back.
Freeing people
from drudgery, repetitive jobs which make them ignorant.
You rob them.
In our society, that is a resourced based economy,
machines free people.
You see, we can't imagine that because we've never known that kind of world.
automation
If we look back at history, we see a very clear pattern of machine automation
slowly replacing human labour.
From the disappearance of the elevator man
to the near full automation of an automobile production plant,
the fact is, as technology grows the need for humans in the work force
will continually be diminished.
This creates a serious clash,
which proves the falsness of the monetary based labor system,
for human employment is in direct competition with technological developement.
Therefore, given the fundamental priority of profit by industry,
people through time will be continually layed off and replaced by machine.
When industry takes on a machine instead of shortening the work day,
they downsize. You loose your job so you have a right to fear machines.
In a high technology, resourced based economy,
it is conservative to say that about 90% of all current occupations
could be faced out by machines.
Freeing humans to live their life without servitude.
For this is the point of technology itself.
And through time, with nano technology and other highly advanced forms of science,
it is not far fetch to see how even complex medical procedures could be performed by machines as well.
And based on the pattern with much higher success rates than humans get today.
The path is clear but our monetary based structure
which requires labour for income, blocks this progress,
for humans need jobs in order to survive.
The bottom line is that this system must go
or we will never be free and technology will be constantly paralyzed.
We have machines that clean out sewers and frees a human being from doing that.
So look at machines as extensions of human performance.
Furthermore, many occupations today will have simply no basis to exist in a resourced based economy.
Such as anything assosiated with the management of money, advertising, along with a legal system itself
for, without money, a great majority of the crimes that are commited today would never occur.
Virtually all forms of crime are consequence in the monetary system, either directly or by nevroses inflicted through financial deprevation.
Therefore laws themselves could eventually become extinct.
Instead of putting up a sign "drive carefully slippery when wet" put abrasive on the highway, so it is not slippery when wet.
And when a person gets in car that drunk
and a car oscillates at great deal
there's a little pendulum
that swings up and back and that will pull the car over the side...
Not a law.
A solution.
Put sonar and radar on automobiles so they can't hit one another.
Man-made laws are attempts
to deal with occuring problems
and not knowing how to solve them -
they make a law.
In the United States, the most privatised, capitalist country on the planet,
it shall come as no surprise
that it also has the largest prison population in the world.
Growing every year.
Statistically, most of these people are uneducated
and come from poor, deprived societies.
And contrary to propaganda,
it is this enviromental conditioning, which lures them into criminal and violent behavior.
However society, looks the other way
in regard to this point.
The legal and prison systems are just more examples
of how our society avoids examining
the root-causes of behavior.
Billions are spend each year
on prisons and police,
while only a fraction is spend on
programs for poverty,
which is one of the most fundamental variables responsible for crime to begin with.
And, as long as we have an economic system,
which preferes and infact creates
scarcity and deprivation, crime will never go away.
incentive
If people have access to the necessities of life
without survitude, debt, barter, trade,
they'd behave very differently.
You want all these things availabe without a price tag.
Now then, you won't gonna have a price tag, what will motivate people?
A man gets everything he wants, he's just lay around in the sun.
This is the myth they perpetuade.
People in our culture are trained to believe
that the monetary system produces incentive.
If they have access to things, why should they want to do anything?
They would loose their incentive.
That's what you're taught to support the monetary system.
When you take money out of the scenario,
there would be different incentives, very different incentives.
When people have access to the necessities of life,
their incentives change.
What about the moon and the stars?
New incentives arise.
If you make a painting, that you enjoy,
you will enjoy giving it to other people, not selling it.
education
I think most of the education, that I've seen today, is essentially producing a person for a job.
It's very specialized. They're not generalists.
People don't know a lot about a lot of different subjects. I don't think you can get people to go to war,
if they knew a lot about a lot of things.
I think education is mostly rote
and they're not taught how to solve problems.
They're not given the tools, homogenly or whithin their own field,
of how to do critical thinking.
In a resource based economy, the education would be very different.
Our society's major concern is mental development
and to motivate each person
to their highest potential.
Because our philosophy is the smarter people are the richer the world
because everybody becomes a contributor.
The smarter your kids are,
the better my life will be.
Because they'll be contributing more constructively to the environment
and to my life. Because everything that we
devise within a resource based economy
would be applied to society, there would be nothing
to hold it back.
civilization
Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies,
all that is a sign,
that we're not civilized yet.
Kids will ask their parents:
"Didn't you see the necessity of the machines?"
"Dad, couldn't you see that war was inevitable
when you produce scarcity?"
Isn't it obvious? Of course, the kid will understand
that you're pinheads - raised merely to serve
the established institutons.
We're such in an abominable, sick society,
that we won't make the history book.
They'll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations,
used force and violence.
You'll get history talked about as
corrupt behavior all the way along
until the beginning of the civilized world.
That's when all the nations work together.
World unification,
working toward common good for all human beings
and without anyone being subservient to anyone else.
Without social stratification
whether it be technical elitism
or any other kind of elitism,
eradicated from the face of the earth.
The "state" does nothing because there is no "state".
The system I advocate,
a resource based global economy is not perfect,
it's just a lot better than what we have.
We can never achieve perfection.
"My country is the world..."
and my religion is to do good."
- Thomas Paine - 1737-1809
The social values of our society,
which has manifested in perpetual warfare,
corruption,
oppressive laws,
social stratification,
irrelevant superstitions,
environmental destruction,
and a despotic, socially indifferent, profit oriented ruling class,
is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance
of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality.
The emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law.
The emergent nature of reality
is that all systems - whether it is knowledge,
society, technology, philosophy or any other creation -
will, when uninhibited,
undergo fluid perpetual change.
What we consider commonplace today
such as modern communication and transportation,
would have been unimaginable in ancient times.
Likewise, the future will contain technologies,
realizations and social structures
that we cannot even fathom in the present.
We have gone from alchemy to chemistry,
from a geocentric universe to a heliocentric,
from believing that demons were the cause of illness
to modern medicine.
This development shows no sign of ending,
and it is this awareness that aligns us
and leads us on a continuous path
to growth and progress.
Static empirical knowledge does not exist,
rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems
we must recognize.
This means we must be open to new information at all times,
even if it threatens our current belief system and hence,
identities.
Sadly, society today has failed to recognize this,
and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth
by preserving outdated social structures.
Simultaneously, the population suffers from a fear of change.
For their conditioning assumes a static identity
and challenging one's belief system,
usually results in insult and apprehension.
For being wrong is erroneously associated with failure.
When in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated.
For it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding,
furthering awareness.
The fact is, there is no such thing as a smart human being,
for it is merely a matter of time
before their ideas are updated, changed or irradicated.
And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system,
sheltering it from new possibly transforming information
is nothing less than a form of intellectual materialism.
The monetary system perpetuates this materialism
not only by it's self-preserving structures,
but also throught the countless number of people
who have been conditioned into blindly
and thoughtlessly upholding these structures,
therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo.
Sheep which no longer need a sheep-dog to control them.
For they control each other by ostracizing those who step out of the norm.
This tendency to resist change
and uphold existing institutions
for the sake of identity, comfort,
power and profit,
is completely unsustainable.
And will only produce further imbalance,
fragmentation,
distortion,
and invariably,
destruction.
It's time to change.
From hunters and gatherers,
to the agricultural revolution,
to the industrial revolution,
the pattern is clear.
It is time for a new social system
which reflects the understandings we have today.
The monetary system is a product
of a period of time
where scarcity was a reality.
Now, with the age of technology,
it is no longer relevant to society.
Gone with the aberrant behavior it manifests.
Likewise, dominant world views,
such as theistic religion, operate with
the same social irrelevancy.
Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and all of the others
exist as barriers to personal and social growth.
For each group perpetuates a closed world view.
And this finite understanding that they acknowledge
is simply not possible in an emergent universe.
Yet, religion has succeeded in shutting down the awareness
of this emergence
by instilling the psychological distortion of faith
upon it's followers.
Where logic and new information is rejected
in favor of traditionalized outdated beliefs.
The concept of god,
is really a method of accounting for the nature of things.
In the early days people didn't know enough
about how things formed,
how nature worked.
So they invented their own little stories,
and the made god in their own image.
A guy that get's angry
when people don't behave right.
He creates floods and earthquakes
and they say it's an act of god.
A cursory glance at the suppressed history of religion
reveals that even the foundational myths themselves
are emergent culminations developed through influence over time.
For example, a cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith
is the death and resurrection of Christ.
This notion is so important that the Bible itself states
"And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain"
Yet it is very difficult to take this account literally,
for not only is there no primary source denoting this supernatural event in secular history,
awareness of the enormous number of pre-Christian saviors
who also died and were resurrected
immediately puts this story in mythological territory by association.
Early church figures,
such as Tortullian,
went to great lengths to break these associations,
even claiming that the devil caused the similarities to occur.
Stating in the second century:
"The devil, whose business is to pervert the truth,
mimics the exact circumstance of the Divine Sacraments.
He baptizes his believers and promises forgiveness of sins...
he celebrates the oblation of bread, and brings in the symbol of the resurrection.
Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil,
who copied certain things of those that be Divine."
What is truly sad however,
is that when we cease the idea that the stories from Christianity,
Judaism, Islam and all the others
are literal history,
and accept them for what they really are,
which are purely allegorical expressions derived from many faiths,
we see that all religions share a common thread.
And it is this unifying imperative
that needs to be recognized and appreciated.
Religious belief has caused more fragmentation and conflict
than any other ideology.
Christianity alone has over 34,000 different subgroups.
The Bible is subject to interpretation.
When you read it, you say
"I think Jesus meant this. I think Job meant that.
Oh No! He meant this."
So you have the Lutheran, the Seventh-day Adventist, the Catholic,
and a church divided is no church at all.
And this point on division,
which is a trademark on all theistic religions,
brings us to our second failure of awareness.
The false assumption of separation
through the rejection of the symbiotic relationship of life.
Apart from the understanding that all natural systems are emergent,
where all notions of reality will be constantly developed,
altered and even eradicated,
we must also understand that all systems are, in fact,
invented fragments, merely for sake of conversation.
For there is no such thing as independence in nature.
The whole of nature is a unified system of interdependent variables,
each a cause and a reaction, existing only as a concentrated whole.
You don't see the plug to connect to the environment,
so it looks like we're free... wandering around.
Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately.
Take plant life away, we die.
And without the sun, all the plants die.
So we are connected.
We really must take into account the totality.
This isn't just a human experience on this planet,
this is a total experience.
And we know we can't survive without plants and animals.
We know we can't survive without the four elements, you know?
And so, when are we gonna really start taking that into account?
That's what it is to be successful.
Success depends on how well we're related to everything around us.
I'm very aware of the fact that my grandson
cannot possibly hope
to inherit a sustainable,
peaceful, stable, socially just world
unless every child today growing up in
Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia, in Palestine, in Israel
also has that same expectation.
You gotta take care of the whole community
or you're gonna have serious problems.
And now we have to see that the whole world is the community.
And we must all take care of each other that way.
And it's not just a community of human beings,
it's a community of plants and animals and elements.
And we really need to understand that.
That's what's gonna bring us joy too,
and pleasure.
That's what's missing in our lives right now.
We can call it spirituality,
but the fact of the matter is
joy comes from that bliss of connectedness.
That's our god spirit.
That's that side of ourselves
that really feels it,
and you can feel it deep inside you. It's this
amazing wonderful feeling and you know it when you get it.
You don't get it from money,
you get it from connection.
"Now if that isn't a hazard to this country.
How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons,
you know what I mean?
What's gonna happen to the arms industry
when we realize we're all one?
It's gonna fuck up the economy.
The economy that's fake anyway.
Which would be a real bummer.
You can see why the government's crackin' down...
on the idea of experiencing unconditional love."
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - 1929-1968
Once we understand that the integrity of our personal existences
are completely dependent
on the integrity of everything else in our world,
we have truly understood the meaning of unconditional love.
For love is extensionality and seeing everything as you
and you as everything can have no conditionalities,
for in fact, we are all everything at once.
If it's true that we're all from the center of a star,
every atom on each of us from the center of a star,
then we're all the same thing.
Even a Coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street in buffalo
is made out of atoms that came from a star.
They've all been recycled thousands of times,
as have you and I.
And therefore, it's only me out there.
So what is there to be afraid of? What is there that needs solace seeking?
Nothing. There's nothing to be afraid of because it's all us.
The trouble is we have been separated by being born
and given a name and an identity and being individuated.
We've been separated from the oneness,
and that's what religion exploits.
That people have this yearning to be part of the overall one again.
So they exploit that. They call it god, they say he has rules,
and I think it's cruel.
I think you can do it absent religion.
...an extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies
would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities...
Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon and the stars...
We humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature
and the forces that sculpted this work...
And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos,
we have begun at least to wonder about our origins...
star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms,
contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet earth...
Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for earth.
Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves
but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring.
We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.
- Carl Sagan - 1934-1996
It's time to claim the unity
our outmoded social systems have broken apart,
and work together to create a sustainable,
global society, where everyone is taken care of
and everyone is truly free.
Your personal beliefs, whatever they may be,
are meaningless when it comes to the necessities of life.
Every human being is born naked,
needing warmth, food, water, shelter.
Everything else is auxiliary.
Therefore, the most important issue at hand
is the intelligent management of the Earth's resources.
This can never be accomplished in a monetary system,
for the pursuit of profit is the pursuit of self interest
and therefore imbalance is inherent.
Simultaneously, politicians are useless.
For our true problems in life are technical not political.
Furthermore, ideologies that separate humanity,
such as religion,
need strong reflection in the community
in regard to it's value, purpose and social relevancy.
Hopefully, through time,
religion will loose it's materialism and basis in superstition
and move into the useful field of philosophy.
The fact is, society today is backwards,
with politicians constantly talking about protection and security
rather than creation, unity and progress.
The US alone now spends about $500 billions dollars annually on defense.
That is enough to send every high school senior in America to a four year college.
In the 1940's the Manhattan Project
produced the first true weapon of mass destruction.
This program employed 130,000 people, at an extreme financial cost.
Imagine what our life would be like today if that group of scientists,
instead of working on a way of killing people,
worked on a way to create a self-sustaining abundant world.
Life today would be very very different if that was their goal.
Instead of weapons of mass destruction,
it is time to unleash something much more powerful.
Weapons of Mass Creation (WMCs).
Our true divinity is in our ability to create.
And armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life,
while being guided by the emergent nature of reality,
there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish.
Of course, we face strong barriers
in the form of established power structures
that refuse to change.
At the heart of these structures is the monetary system.
As explained earlier, the fractional reserve policy
is a form of slavery through debt, where
it is literally impossible for society to be free.
In turn, free market capitalism in the form of free trade,
uses debt to imprison the world and manipulate countries
into subservience to a handful of large business and political powers.
Apart from these obvious amoralities,
the system itself is based on competition,
which immediately destroys the possibility
of large scale collaborations for the common good.
Hence paralyzing any attempt at true global sustainability.
These financial and corporate structures are now obsolete,
and they must be outgrown.
Of course, we can not be naive enough to think that the business and financial elite are going to subscribe to this idea
for they will lose power and control.
Therefore, peacefully a highly strategic action must be taken.
The most powerful course of action is simple.
We have to alter our behavior to force the power structure to the will of the people.
We must stop supporting the system.
The only way the establishment will change
is by our refusal to participate while
continuously acknowledging it's endless flaws and corruptions.
They're not gonna give up the monetary system,
because of our designs of what we've recommend.
The system has to fail,
and people have to lose confidence in their elected leaders.
That will be a major turning point
if The Venus Project is offered as a possible alternative.
If not, I fear the consequences.
The trends now indicate that our country is going bankrupt.
The probability is our country will move toward a military dictatorship
to prevent riots and complete social breakdown.
Once the US breaks down,
all the other cultures will undergo similar things.
As of now, the world financial system is on the brink
of collapse due to it's own shortcomings.
The controller of currencies stated in 2003
that the interest on the US national debt
will not be affordable in less than ten years.
This theoretically means total bankruptcy for the US economy
and it's implications for the world are immense.
In turn the fractional reserve based monetary system
is reaching it's theoretical limits of expansion
and the banking failures you are seeing are just the beginning.
This is why inflation is skyrocketing,
our debt is at record levels
and the government and FED are hemorrhaging new money
to bailout the corrupt system.
For the only way to keep the banks going
is by making more money.
The only way to make more money
is to create more debt and inflation.
It is simply a matter of time before the tables turn
and there's no one is willing to make new loans
while defaults grow as people are unable to afford their current loans.
Then the expansion of money will stop
and contraction will begin on a scale never before seen,
ending a century long pyramid scheme.
This has already begun.
Therefore, we need to expose this financial failure for what it is,
using this weakness to our advantage.
Here are some suggestions:
Expose the banking fraud.
Citibank, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America
are the most powerful controllers within the corrupt Federal Reserve system.
It's time to boycott these institutions.
If you have a bank account or credit card with any of them,
move your money to another bank.
If you have a mortgage, refinance with another bank.
If you own their stock, sell it.
If you work for them, quit.
This gesture will express contempt
for the true powers behind the private banking cartel
known as the Federal Reserve.
And create awareness about the fraud of the banking system itself.
Two. Turn off the TV news.
Visit the emerging independent news agencies on the internet for your information.
CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX and all the others
present all news pre-filtered to maintain the status quo.
With four corporations owning all major media outlets,
objective information is impossible.
This is the true beauty of the internet.
And the establishment has been losing control
because of this free flow of information.
We must protect the internet at all times,
as it is truly our savior right now.
Three.
Don't ever allow yourself,
your family or anyone you know, to ever join the military.
This is an obsolete institution
now used exclusively for maintaining an establishment
that is no longer relevant.
US soldiers in Iraq work for US corporations,
not the people.
Propaganda forces us to believe that war is natural
and the military is an honorable institution.
Well if war is natural,
why are there 18 suicides every single day
by American veterans
who have post-traumatic stress disorder?
If our military men and women are so honored,
why is it that 25% of the American homeless population
are veterans?
Four.
Stop supporting the energy companies.
If you live in a detached house,
get off the grid.
Investigate every means of making your home self-sustainable
with clean energy.
Solar, wind and other renewable energies
are now affordable consumer realities,
and considering the never ending rising costs of traditional energies,
it will likely be a cheaper investment over time.
If you drive, get the smallest car you can
and consider using one of the many conversion technologies
that can enable your car to be a hybrid,
electric or run on anything other than establishment fuels.
Five.
Reject the political system.
The illusion of democracy is an insult to our intelligence.
In a monetary system, there is no such thing as a true democracy,
and there never was.
We have two political parties owned by the same set of corporate lobbyists.
They are placed in their positions by the corporations,
with popularity artificially projected by their media.
In a system of inherent corruption
the change of personnel every couple of years
has very little relevance.
Instead of pretending that the political game has any true meaning
focus your energy on how to transcend this failed system.
And six.
Join the movement.
Go to the thezeitgeistmovement.com
and help us create the largest mass movement for social change
the world has ever seen.
We must mobilize and educate everyone
about the inherent corruption of our current world system,
along with the only true sustainable solution,
declaring all the natural resources on the planet
as common heritage to all people,
while informing everyone as to the true state of technology
and how we can all be free if the world works together rather than fights.
The choice lies with you.
You can continue to be a slave to the financial system
and watch the continuous wars, depressions and injustice across the globe
while placating yourself with vain entertainment
and materialistic garbage;
or, you can focus your energy on true, meaningful, lasting, holistic change
which actually has the realistic ability to support
and free all humans with no one left behind.
But in the end, the most relevant change
must occur first inside of you.
The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness,
and each one of us first needs to eliminate
the divisionary, materialistic noise
we have been conditioned to think is true;
while discovering, amplifying and aligning
with the signal coming from our true empirical oneness.
It is up to you.
"What we are trying in all these discussions and talks here
is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformism of the mind.
Not accept thing they are...
but to understand it, to go into it, to examine it,
give your heart and your mind with every thing that you have to find out.
A way of living differently.
But, that depends on you and not somebody else.
Because in this there is no teacher,
no pupil,
there's no leader,
there's no guru,
there's no master, no savior.
You yourself are the teacher and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader,
you are everything!
And,
to understand
is to transform what is."